Chapter V: Book II

_“There is an organic logic, an instinctive and dream-sure logic of
all existence, as opposed to the logic of the inorganic, the logic
of understanding and of things understood--a logic of direction as
opposed to a logic of extension.”_

OSWALD SPENGLER,
“Decline of the West.”

_“If the cause of the happiness of this country (America) was
examined into, it would be found to arise as much from the great
plenty of land in proportion to the inhabitants, as from the wisdom
of their political institutions.”_

ALBERT GALLATIN,
in the Congressional Debate
on The Land Bill of 1796.

_“Why is it that in Europe those who call themselves Democrats
always stand for the people, or at any rate always rely on the
people, while our democrat is often an aristocrat, nearly always
supports that which oppresses the power of the people, and ends by
becoming a despot?”_

FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY,
commenting on the Pushkin Address, 1881.